Welcome to NSC

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New Ship Classes & More is a mod for the PC strategy game Stellaris by Paradox Interactive. Stellaris is available to purchase on Steam here.

This website is here to serve as a full guide to the mod for our users. By using the drop down menus above, you can view a page about each individual feature in the mod to learn what it does, how it works, its requirements in the game, and other information.

The New Ship Classes & More mod (“NSC” for short) is currently available in 3 different mod formats, the “main” mod where all features and improvements are made (called “NSC Main”), and two “sub-mods,” each featuring only a specific part of the New Ship Classes & More mod: NSC Streamlined & Playable Guardians Standalone.

New Ship Classes & More

More information about the latest updates to this mod as well as the ability to subscribe and download it can be found on our Steam Workshop page, located here.

The original New Ship Classes & More mod, dubbed NSC Main for short, is the primary mod that holds all features, improvements, and tweaks of the mod, and all developments from NSC Main that are relevant to each sub-mod are transferred to them after development in NSC Main is completed.

New Spaceport Modules: The Mothball & Scrapyard Facility and the Customs Office.

New Buildings: Governor’s Mansion and The Science & Technology Center.

New Megastructures: Including Buildable Planets and an Industrial Complex (for players who have purchased the Utopia DLC).

Vanilla Improvements: Numerous fixes or improvements for many vanilla issues, including the AI, the guardian weaponry bug, and many event file fixes.

And Much More: Hundreds of other tweaks and changes to improve the gameplay experience.

IMPORTANT: While the New Ship Classes & More mod runs without requiring any DLCs, there are certain parts of the mod that cannot be used without purchasing select DLC for the Stellaris game. While these DLC purchases are completely optional, you will not be able to have the full New Ship Classes & More experience without the purchase of the following Stellaris DLCs:

Stellaris: Leviathans Story Pack –This DLC allows you to enjoy the Playable Guardians Feature, the biggest expanded feature in the New Ship Classes & More mod, along with certain shipsets and cultures that require assets from the DLC. You can purchase the Leviathans Story Pack DLC here.

Stellaris: Utopia – This DLC allows you to access the Megastructures New Ship Classes & More provides. You can purchase the Utopia DLC here.

New Ship Classes & More: Streamlined

More information about the latest updates to this mod as well as the ability to subscribe and download it can be found on our Steam Workshop page, located here.

While NSC Main offers many features and improvements to the Stellaris game, certain players didn’t want all the extra features, and instead wished to focus more on the mods primary goal: new ship classes. With this in mind, the “lite” version of New Ship Classes & More was created, called New Ship Classes & More: Streamlined (or “NSC Streamlined” for short).

Player Controlled Guardian System Spawn Chances: You determine which Guardians are available in your campaign from the start, including how many, whenever you want.

Reworked Guardian Systems: Improvements and upgrades to most Guardians systems to make them more worthwhile.

Improved Guardian Weaponry & Scaling: Ether Drake & Automated Dreadnought are now the “massive size” they are meant to be, and the Pirate Galleon and Technosphere have real weaponry.

Fixed the Guardian Weaponry Bug: Paradox incorrectly coded certain Guardians, causes them to loose some of their weaponry. No more.

IMPORTANT: Unlike the first two mods here, Playable Guardians Standalone requires the Leviathans DLC, which you can find here, to run at all, since the entire mod improves and modifies the contents of this particular DLC.